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title: 'Poongodhai (1953)'
type: 'film'
director: 'L. V. Prasad'
released: '1953-01-01'
countries:
  - 'India'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/poongodhai-1953'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0255498/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Poongodhai (1953)

1953 · India

Original title: பூங்கோதை

## Synopsis

Paradesi or Poongothai is a 1953 Indian Telugu-Tamil bilingual romance film, produced by P. Adinarayana Rao under the Anjali pictures banner and directed by L. V. Prasad. .This is actually the first film acted by Sivaji but Parasakthi came first.It stars Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Anjali Devi, and Sivaji Ganesan with music composed by P. Adinarayana Rao. The film is a remake of the Hindi movie Raj Rani (1950). Paradesi was an average grosser at the box office. No print of Poongothai is known to survive, making it a lost film.

## Credits

- **Director:** [L. V. Prasad](https://cinepixo.com/people/l-v-prasad)
- **Producer:** [P. Adinarayana Rao](https://cinepixo.com/people/p-adinarayana-rao)
- **Director of Photography:** [Kamal Ghosh](https://cinepixo.com/people/kamal-ghosh)

## Cast

- [Sivaji Ganesan](https://cinepixo.com/people/sivaji-ganesan)
- [S. V. Ranga Rao](https://cinepixo.com/people/s-v-ranga-rao)
- [Anjali Devi](https://cinepixo.com/people/anjali-devi)
- [Akkineni Nageswara Rao](https://cinepixo.com/people/akkineni-nageswara-rao)
- [Pandari Bai](https://cinepixo.com/people/pandari-bai)
- [Relangi Venkata Ramaiah](https://cinepixo.com/people/relangi-venkata-ramaiah)

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